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Genetic disorders
Genetic diseases, syndromes, or conditions caused by genetic variations and abnormalities in genes or chromosomes.
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Genetic disorders
marker
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) An identifiable segment of DNA (e.g., RFLP, VNTR, microsatellite) with enough variation between individuals that its inheritance and co-inheritance with alleles of a given gene can be traced; used ...
genetic marker
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) An identifiable segment of DNA (e.g., RFLP, VNTR, microsatellite) with enough variation between individuals that its inheritance and co-inheritance with alleles of a given gene can be traced; used ...
phagocytes
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) An immune system cell that can surround and kill microorganisms and remove dead cells. Phagocytes include macrophages. 2) A cell (as a white blood cell) that engulfs and consumes foreign material ...
polyploidy
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) An increase in the number of haploid sets (23) of chromosomes in a cell. Triploidy refers to three whole sets of chromosomes in a single cell (in humans, a total of 69 chromosomes per cell); ...
polyploid
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) An increase in the number of haploid sets (23) of chromosomes in a cell. Triploidy refers to three whole sets of chromosomes in a single cell (in humans, a total of 69 chromosomes per cell); ...
symptom
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) An indication that a person has a condition or disease. Some examples of symptoms are headache, fever, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and pain. 2) Subjective evidence of disease or physical ...
carrier
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) An individual who has a recessive, disease-causing allele at a particular locus on one chromosome of a pair and a normal allele at that locus on the other chromosome. 2) A carrier is an individual ...
